EACHARD, Laurence, an English historian, and nearly related to the preceding, was born in 1721 at Suffolk, where his father was a clergyman. He was educated in the university of Cambridge; and after taking orders was presented to the living of Welton and Elvington in Lincolnshire. He was subsequently archdeacon of Lincoln, and prebendary of Stowe. He died in 1780. The work by which he is best known is his History of England, in two parts, from the time of the Roman Invasion to the Revolution. It has been attacked by Calamy and Oldmixon; but though it reached several editions, it is now almost entirely forgotten. He wrote also an Ecclesiastical History from the Nativity of Christ to Constantine; a History of Rome till Augustus; a History of the Revolution, and several other works.